Bought my Titanium in July 2012, 9,500 miles on it and I'm ready to take it back due to ongoing MFT issues. Radio comes on loud then gets quiet, 2-3 minutes to get the screen on, non responsive screen, Rear View Camera message pops up and I don't a rear view camera, on and on.

Two visits to the dealer with system resets and whatever else they do. Still no improvement.

This was a key reason I bought the car and paid extra money for it. I wonder what the salesman will say when I tell him I don't want it anymore?

It seems obvious that there are latent defects and the product wasn't ready for the general public.

Picked up my Focus on the 4th of August and up until this past week I've not had any major issues with MFT.

Now it seems that 90% of calls I make are having problems...

When initiating a handsfree call I press the Voice button and say who I want to call and it calls, but the MFT doesn't show this or any confirmations in the "Phone" section and the "handsfree" feature doesn't work. My iPhone 4S on iOS 6 shows that it is using Sync for audio input/output, but I hear nothing through the speakers, nor do the people on the other end who have picked up the call hear me. If I switch to "iPhone" audio input/output on the phone we can talk but if I switch it back to the "Sync" setting all audio is again lost.

When receiving a call, the currently playing audio mutes and I hear the phone rininging, but the MFT does not initially recognize the call and display the "accept" or "decline" window on the display, and if I press the call "start/accept" button on the steering wheel it asks if I want to call the previously called number, as if it doesn't see the currently incoming call.

SyncMy Ride tells me I'm running the most recent software and nothing has been changed or updated since I purchased the car.

I tried searching this thread to see if there's a solution to this, but there's just too much going on in here to find any answers. Anyone have a solution?

1. Clock randomly jumps ahead
2. Digital source audio skips after a couple minutes each time you start the car.
3. Playlists will go to alphabetical order instead of shuffle after you shut off and restart the car even though it still shows shuffle selected.

Honestly this is basic stuff. I don't know how Ford screwed it up so bad.

The digital media points noted are important ones; it would appear that the MFT system allows low priority to USB connections as I have experienced the same skips and stutters when playing music off of a dedicated USB thumb drive. I've compared a bunch of varying speeds and qualities of USB thumb drives and they all do it and it always happen within minutes of the MFT system initializing; connecting phone, locking onto the satellites for navigation tracking or to put it in the most simplest of terms - booting up.

Haven't witnessed the clock anomalies.

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Originally Posted by jthj007

The problems I have 3.2.2

1. Clock randomly jumps ahead
2. Digital source audio skips after a couple minutes each time you start the car.
3. Playlists will go to alphabetical order instead of shuffle after you shut off and restart the car even though it still shows shuffle selected.

Honestly this is basic stuff. I don't know how Ford screwed it up so bad.

I have 3.0.2 and
I get the audio skip a few minutes into the car starting.
My shuffle doesn't stay shuffled when the car restarts though it says shuffle is on
Once in a while when I select Sirius manually on the touch screen it jumps back to FM
Sometimes the voice commands take a while before it registers and does what it needs to do
Also rather annoyed my ipod doesn't start playing again after a restart. It sits in pause and I need to press play or tell it to play (which is why I wish there was a physical play and pause button)

Yeah, this one has plagued a bunch of people, including me when I first got my car. Don't know if you have Nav or not but if you do, you can set the clock to be set through GPS. It solved the problem for me. If you don't have Nav, I don't think there is much you can do. I've never seen anyone afflicted give a resolution to the issue.

Kind of funny (in a really sad way) that Ford wants to be an industry leader in in-car infotainment and they can't even get a clock to work right for a bunch of people (ya know, a functioning clock in a car, that kind of cutting-edge technology).

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